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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

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Little Boy Drowned. Dog Gives the Alarm. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 April 1923 · page 3

Attracted by the loud barking of a dog that was the faithful companion of her two-year-old son, Mrs. R. Lunney, of Wallsend, went to a waterhole about 200…

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Historic Cup Final. Amazing Scenes. Crowd of 280,000. Many Spectators Injured. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 April 1923 · page 3

Amazing scenes, unprecedented in the history of cup finals, were witnessed at the cup final between the Bolton Wanderers, a Lancashire team,…

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Eleven Missing. Schooner Wrecked. Foundered in a Gale. Captain and Wife Drowned. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 May 1923 · page 5

Bound for Manila with a cargo of coal the wooden schooner Amy Turner foundered near the Island of Guam in a frightful gale. Eleven of those on board are…

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Riot on Ship. Colored Seamen Fight. One Killed. Several Injured, Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 May 1923 · page 5

The steamer City of Brisbane, on which a terrific racial feud was recently waged, arrived in Sydney to-day. It transpired that the captain and…

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Horseman Killed. Accident at Showground. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 May 1923 · page 5

Victor McNally was exercising a horse at Lowood Showground to-day when it an off the course and [?] to the entrance gate, which was closed, but the…

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Dredge Turns Turtle. One Man Drowned. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 2 May 1923 · page 2

The harbor dredge Thomas King capsized while engaged depositing stone for a breakwater extension at New Plymouth, New Zealand…

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Dredge Capsized. One Man Drowned. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 May 1923 · page 5

The harbor dredge, Thomas King, capsized while engaged depositing stone for the breakwater extension at New Plymouth, New Zealand…

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Boy's Awful Death. Mangled By Train. Three Others Injured. Accident at Level Crossing. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 May 1923 · page 5

A train ran into a motor car at a railway crossing at Blackheath this morning. The car contained passengers and fruit…

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Schipp Acquitted. Death of George Dunn. Maclean Bridge Fatality

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 May 1923 · page 4

John Schipp was placed on trial on a charge of having, at Maclean on December 15, 1922, caused the death of George Dunn. The case was one arising out of…

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May Day. Policemen Injured. Paris

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 May 1923 · page 5

Sixty-one policemen were injured in conflicts with demonstrators on May Day, most of them only slightly. Sixty demonstrators were arrested…

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Front Wheels Over Cutting. Accident Narrowly Averted

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 May 1923 · page 6

A serious accident was narrowly averted on Pee Dee Hill, on the Kempsey- Armidale road, last week. Mr. Nelson, of Kempsey, was coming to Armidale,…

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Fatal Rabbit Shooting Accident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 May 1923 · page 5

Alexander Knox, of Canterbury, while out with another boy rabbit shooting at Wallan, was accidentally shot dead. His companion heard him call out, "Get…

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Queensland. Fracas Aboard Steamer. Colored Man Seriously Injured Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 May 1923 · page 5

A fracas among several members of the colored crew occurred aboard the steamer Ooma, lying at the Mercantile wharf, Bulimba to-day. In the disturbance…

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Nose-dived. Wrecked Amy Turner. Captain and Wife Drowned. Ship Battered by Typhoon Survivors' Thrilling Story. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 May 1923 · page 5

Reuter's Manila correspondent says the three survivors of the Amy Turner arrived to-day, Charles West, the mate, working his passage as a seaman,…

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Footballer Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 May 1923 · page 2

Whilst playing for South Grafton against Ulmarra on Saturday last at Ulmarra, A. Kelly, one of the three-quarter line, sustained slight concussion in a…

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Sensational Accident. Steamer Hits Bridge. Huge Beam Through Cabin. Passengers Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 May 1923 · page 3

There was a sensational accident at the conclusion of the Great Public Schools' regatia yesterday evening. The ferry steamer Kuramia, with 1500…

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Ferry Accident. Motor Lorry in River. Mororo Ferryman's Escape. Maclean, Sunday Night

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 May 1923 · page 2

A large motor lorry which was transporting Stanley McKay's marquee and equipment left Maclean at noon to-day en route for Coraki…

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Two Hundred Injured. Riots in Vienna. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 May 1923 · page 5

The Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says over one hundred police were wounded in Vienna in two days while engaged stopping riots…

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Broken Locks. The Blackheath Fatality. Sensational Evidence. Emash at Level-crossing. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 May 1923 · page 5

At the inquest concerning the death of the boy Commens, the victim of the recent, accident at Blackheath level-crossing, Frank Randall, 19, gatekeeper,…

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Fisherman Drowned. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 May 1923 · page 5

George Kent, aged 25, was fishing with his brohter-in-law off the rocks at Ben Buckler Bondi. to-day, when a breaker swept Kent into deep water. His…

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